RDD MAY TAKE DUTY OF OMBUDSPERSON FROM THE SENIOR MOST JUNIOR ENGINEER OF THE CADRE/GRADE/POST WORKING AT THE LEVEL OF PROGRAMMES OFFICER .

Coverage of the Ombudsman under Right to information has been made justified and the Ombudsman shall be covered under the Right to information act 2005 and the Nodal department of the state government shall notify public information officer and the Appellate authority for this purpose. Periodic review of the functioning of the office of Ombudsman in the state, the yearly review of the functioning of the ombudsman shall be made at the level of the Chief Secretary of the state government including review of action taken on the awards of Ombudsman and institutional mechanisms to strengthen grievance redressal under MGNREGA in the state .Minutes of the review meeting shall be placed before the state Employment Guarantee Council . The state Government shall set up a three member appellate authority, consisting of an academician , a retired civil servant and a civil society representative, to consider representation by any party aggrieved by the awards of the ombudsman, Such a representation shall be disposed of with a period of two months by the appellate authority.Office of the appellate authority shall be located in the office of the nodal Department of the state government implementing MGNREGA.Expenses of such an appellate authority shall be borne by the states from the six percent administrative expenditure permitted under section 22(1) (c) of the MGNREGA. So keeping in view the duty and responsibility of the Appellate authority prefixed by the law code manual under act ibid there is no logic to appoint the Ombudsperson in the state exchequer and said duty and responsibility could be obtained from the senior most Junior Engineer to XEN level work and conduct of the verification of record and complaints by the MGNREGA people demanding their livelihood from the panchayats for which the separate cadre of junior Engineers working in the Block levels functioning in addition to the technical assistants working in the panchayat level duty required to prepare the estimates for works that are with in one lac. The technical assistant would require to examine the works and helping in the measurement and ensuring correct specifications of the work done.Providing technical assistance to the labour and check and measure the works that are being carried out every fifteen days .As such the cadre of the senior most Junior Engineers existing in the Development Blocks may redress the grievances of the MGNREGA people demanding their livelihood from the system of governance in case of any complaint under article 350 of the constitution and the said Engineering staff working at the block head quarter being senior most Junior Engineer of the RDD may take matter deliberation with the Appellate authority if found necessary under law code manual prefixed by the Act ibid in this behalf.